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I've been struggling in searching a cool baritone guitar I could purchase, but I still hesitate between some different axes and brands, regarding to prices, caracteristics, and everything... Moreover, as I can't -unfortunately- try one, and need to order one online if I really want to know how it sounds and how to play it, I wanted to ask for your help cause there a a lot of questions I'm asking myself right now.

First of all, these are the baritones I've found that could be O.K with my spending limit, and what I think about it; please let me know what you consider would be the best for me, or if you've already heard about these axes:
- the Squier Jazzmaster Modified Vintage Baritone: horrible Antigua colour (which is very important in the choice I'm gonna make), doesn't have a vibrato, but cheaper in cost, sounds pretty cool -according to videos I've been watching- and I saw that it was a very well done instrument, technicaly: it has a 30" scale and it's tuned A to A so I don't know if it's that correct in the idea of getting a real baritone: is this a real baritone???
- the Eastwood Sidejack Baritone DLX: kinda cool (even if I'm really not into Mosrite-like designs), great instrument as I heard, it has a vibrato and it seems to be a genuine baritone, from B to B and with a 28" scale; but there's a problem with it cause I play alone, I have a project on my own with a RC-50 loop, and in my country, there's already a very famous guy doing music like I'd like to do, who performs with... THIS Eastwood Sidejack Baritone... Goddamn'...
- the Hagstrom Viking Baritone: don't know much about the semi hollow body, it looks and sounds really great but I'm not sure it could be O.K with some fuzz or just a like crush as I'd like to play with... and it's way more expensive for me...
- the Squier Bass VI: it's NOT a baritone... I've read that it's impossible to play power chords with it, the E string sounds terrible -apparently- but it could be an alternative for my playing, using it as a guitar or -maybe- as a baritone-like... I don't know...

Well, as you can see, I'm very very doubtful about it, because I wanna make sure I need this baritone, and not a regular guitar. I think it could perfectly fit with my voice range (pretty low), and I want to discover new sounds and new playing styles. Also, I'm really into punk rock, indie, post-punk and post-hardcore music, and I adore noisy and experimental stuff. Maybe it could be a good choice.
Another thing: I would like to be sure my baritone could "cohabitate" with other standard-tuned instruments, cause I'm gonna play various instruments with my RC-50 loop, mostly the bass and an other acoustic guitar. Isn't it too difficult for the 2 differents tunings to be played together?
And the last thing which is very important: I travel a lot with my job, sometimes I leave my country and go overseas for 6 months or a year. I would like to purchase and instrument that could be complete and well balanced for what I want to do -even if I'm thinking of using it as my principal instrument. That's why I thought about the Bass VI, which is kinda hybride between bass and guitar, I could use both at the same time... dunno...

If you have questions to ask me in order for me to make sure I'm gonna go with the right choice, don't hesitate: I'll really appreciate your help with this problem I has and it's kinda driving me crazy right now because I've been studying the whole thing for months... In a few weeks I won't even have sufficiently money left, haha, that's why it would be very cool if you could indicate me your opinion, or maybe other instruments with the same price range that I don't know for the moment...

Anyway, in just a few words, THANK YOU SO MUCH in advance, I would really appreciate this...

Regards,


Benjamin

(P.S: And sorry for my bad english and for the grammatical mistakes I've made...)]]> Guitar Players Discussion Notörious Ben https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-players-discussion/need-your-help-buying-a-baritone/#post-46826